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<span class="top">The Book of 1st Chronicles</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<td class="v">17:1</td>
<td>Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.</td>
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<td class="v">17:2</td>
<td>Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.</td>
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<td class="v">17:3</td>
<td>And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,</td>
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<td class="v">17:4</td>
<td>Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:</td>
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<td class="v">17:5</td>
<td>For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.</td>
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<td class="v">17:6</td>
<td>Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?</td>
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<td class="v">17:7</td>
<td>Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:</td>
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<td class="v">17:8</td>
<td>And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.</td>
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<td class="v">17:9</td>
<td>Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,</td>
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<td class="v">17:10</td>
<td>And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.</td>
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<td class="v">17:11</td>
<td>And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.</td>
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<td class="v">17:12</td>
<td>He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.</td>
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<td class="v">17:13</td>
<td>I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:</td>
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<td class="v">17:14</td>
<td>But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.</td>
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<td class="v">17:15</td>
<td>According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.</td>
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<td class="v">17:16</td>
<td>And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?</td>
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<td class="v">17:17</td>
<td>And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.</td>
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<td class="v">17:18</td>
<td>What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.</td>
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<td class="v">17:19</td>
<td>O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.</td>
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<td class="v">17:20</td>
<td>O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.</td>
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<td class="v">17:21</td>
<td>And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?</td>
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<td class="v">17:22</td>
<td>For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.</td>
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<td class="v">17:23</td>
<td>Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.</td>
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<td class="v">17:24</td>
<td>Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.</td>
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<td class="v">17:25</td>
<td>For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.</td>
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<td class="v">17:26</td>
<td>And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:</td>
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<td class="v">17:27</td>
<td>Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.</td>
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